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Electoral Districts in Chile: Optimizing Socio-Economic Homogeneity and Demographic Balance
SystemsThis article addresses the problem of unequal representation in Chile, where the current districting does not effectively consider its socio-economic diversity.
Rodrigo Rebolledo +4 more
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Bicameralism and Policy Responsiveness to Public Opinion
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 1089-1105, July 2024.Abstract Does the organization of the assembly affect whether governments deliver policy that reflects the public's changing preferences? Cross‐national analyses of public opinion and policy outputs for policies concerning welfare and immigration show that governments respond to shifts in public opinion in systems with a dominant chamber but not where ...
Lawrence Ezrow +2 more
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Why Don\u27t We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World [PDF]
, 2011 This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation. In particular, legislative malapportionment enables rich elites to exercise disproportionate political influence.
Inter-American Development Bank
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2013 This paper analyzes the relationship between malapportionment and electoral bases of support for Brazilian senators. The conventional wisdom asserts that malapportionment contributes to the “politics of backwardness” – that it facilitates clientelism and
Taeko Hiroi, Pedro Neiva
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Jurnal TransformativeElectoral district design is often treated as a technical task, yet it shapes the composition of representation. This article examines the splitting of local legislative districts in West Bangka Regency, Indonesia, from three to four for the 2024 ...
Ariandi A Zulkarnain +1 more
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Malapportionment of Representation in the National Diet
Law and Contemporary Problems, 1990 Malapportionment of Diet seats is one of the most serious problems confronting contemporary Japan. After World War II, there was a large-scale population shift from rural to urban areas in Japan, as in other industrialized countries. However, the postwar statutes for apportionment of Diet members have not been fully revised to reflect this shift.
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Winners and Losers under Proportional Representation
Government and OppositionIn elections under proportional representation (PR), proportionality between votes and seats is an ideal never achieved in reality. Discrepancies between votes and seats are most prevalent under the most widely used PR seat allocation formula, D’Hondt ...
Daniel Bochsler
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Legislative Malapportionment and the Politicization of Germany’s Intergovernmental Transfer System [PDF]
Legislative bargaining theory suggests that fiscal transfers among member states of a federation are determined to a substantial degree by political bargaining powers.
Friedrich Schneider +2 more
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Geography of Electoral Districting or Gerrymandering and Malapportionment, Romanian‑style
Sfera Politicii, 2015 In 2008, Romania instituted an electoral system that uses proportional methods for distributing seats to political parties and uninominal constituencies for assigning parliamentary seats to candidates.
Aurelian Giugăl
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Representing Different Constituencies: Electoral Rules in Bicameral Systems in Latin America and Their Impact on Political Representation [PDF]
This article analyzes the quantitative (mechanical) effects and qualitative (perceptions) effects on political representation of the election of two separate chambers in Latin America’s bicameral systems.
Francisco Sánchez, Detlef Nolte
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